This series is my favourite to work with. It started with Wild Woman, she was one of my first images I painted. She is completely naked, sensitive, alert, confident, strong. She is holding her walking stick as she is on a journey that I myself discover as the paintings reveal themselves.

Wild Woman by Gaia Orion – Watercolor 15″x24″ – 2006

Wild woman lives in the times when there were no organized society, no man made environment……

First, let’s make things clear, this is no big deal for me as it is the 4th time that I have cut my hair all off like this in my life. But it seems to cause so many odd looks and questions that I will share why I do it.

1. It feels amazing, clean, practical and comfortable

2. It symbolizes a passage, a change, a transformation

3. It heightens my sensitivity and awareness (just for a while! That would be too easy!)……

I grew up in a large catholic family, I am the eldest of five, my mom came from a family of six and my dad, they were 7 of them. Fathers presided over the families, all of them had good jobs; mothers were at home, cooking, sewing, cleaning, driving us around. My mom would set my clothes at the end of my bed every night until I was 12, the clothes I should wear in the morning; clothes that would make me look like a proper girl from a respectable family…..